New Athens
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village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- St. Clair
- Named after
- Athens, Greece
- Total
- 2.30 sq mi (5.95 km )
- Land
- 2.11 sq mi (5.47 km )
- Water
- 0.19 sq mi (0.48 km )
- Elevation
- 427 ft (130 m)
- Density
- 925.5/sq mi (357.35/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-52116
- Website
- www .newathens .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- New Athens
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- St. Clair County
- Population
- 1955
- Area
- 2.30
- Elevation
- 430
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Official website
- www.newathens.us
- Households
- 740
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- postal code
- 62264
- Commons category
- New Athens, Illinois
- inception
- 1836-00-00
- per capita income
- 29996
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Encyclopedic overview
New Athens (/ˈeɪθənz/) is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Based upon common usage, the 'A' is always sounded with a long vowel, rather than a short vowel, by its residents, unlike the most commonly used English pronunciation of the city in Greece.
As of the 2020 census, New Athens had a population of 1,955. New Athens sits on the Kaskaskia River and was originally called Athens. The village was laid out in 1836 and incorporated in 1866. The name change to New Athens came in 1868 after it was discovered there was already an Athens in another part of the state.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Athens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.